Removing Desktop Environment

Question

How can I remove a desktop environment? If I use KDE in CentOS, how can I remove the default GNOME environment to avoid file conflict?

This doesn’t answer your question, but you can install KDE and GNOME in parallel without file conflicts, and Fedora and CentOS aren’t derivatives of each other. — Stephen Kitt, Aug 11 '17 at 07:36
Does that include KDE Plasma or is KDE Plasma referred to as KDE? — j. kay, Aug 11 '17 at 10:13
KDE Plasma is referred to as KDE, but you can install multiple desktops in Linux without any problem, no matter the desktop. — IllustriousMagenta, Aug 11 '17 at 10:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 10:57

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There will be no file conflicts with installing KDE Plasma and GNOME; however if you wish to save space:

Use this command to remove Gnome Desktop:

yum remove @gnome-desktop

answered Aug 11 '17 at 10:57

what is the command used to remove desktop environments in debian-based distros – j. kay Aug 11 '17 at 13:27
It would be sudo apt-get remove gnome-desktop (I though CentOS used Yum?) – IllustriousMagenta Aug 12 '17 at 01:53
Yes centOS does use yum i was just using CentOS as an example – j. kay Aug 12 '17 at 04:45
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Then please specify your distro in the question. Please, if this works, mark this question as the answer with the tick underneath the down arrow. – IllustriousMagenta Aug 16 '17 at 05:05

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